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| Foreigners are required to register for military service immediately upon receiving Russian citizenship |
| 2024-08-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] At a plenary session on July 31, the State Duma adopted in the first reading and as a whole a bill requiring men who have been decided to be granted Russian citizenship to register for military service before taking the oath of allegiance to a Russian citizen and receiving a Russian passport. In particular, internal affairs agencies, within the limits of their competence, are obliged to provide information about male persons in respect of whom a decision has been made to accept them into Russian citizenship and for whom it is planned to organize the taking of the oath of citizenship of the Russian Federation. The document proposes amendments to the current law "On military duty and military service". Thus, the responsibilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be expanded. In addition, on July 31, the State Duma adopted a law on the termination of acquired Russian citizenship for failure to fulfill the obligation to register for military service. For the first time, new citizens of the Russian Federation lost their citizenship for evading military registration at the end of 2023. After that, the head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeyev, proposed issuing Russian passports to new citizens of the country in the presence of a military commissar. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the first half of 2024, about a thousand naturalized citizens were deprived of their Russian passports for violating criminal law. In more than half of the cases, citizenship was revoked for committing crimes related to the illegal trafficking of narcotics. Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that the authorities should radically update their approaches to migration policy. The head of state noted that only those citizens who respect the country's traditions, history and the Russian language should come to live and work in Russia. |
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